A physician from the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (FMRP-USP), in 1975. Doctorate in Clinical Surgery from FMRP-USP, in 1985. Postdoctoral fellows at the University of Toronto, Canada (1986), and at the University of Alabama, in Birmingham, USA (1992-1994). Associate Professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Department of Surgery and Anatomy at FMRP-USP, at RDIDP. Head of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery and Congenital Cardiopathies at Hospital das Clínicas da FMRP-USP.